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Learning SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards

By : Taha Mahmoud
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Learning SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards

By: Taha Mahmoud

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Learning SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introducing other chart types


Now, we should be more familiar with the process of creating a dashboard. In this section, we will go through the chart types that we have in SAP BO Dashboards, and we will focus on the column and bar charts as we will need them to create our eFashion dashboard project. We will cover the following dashboard components:

  • Line, column, bar, and column line charts

  • Bubble and scatter charts

  • OHLC and Candlesticks charts

  • Bullet charts

  • Radar chart

  • Tree map (heat map)

The column line chart is renamed in SAP BO Dashboard 4.1, and it was combined chart in the earlier releases.

Line, column, bar, and column line charts

Line chart can be used to show the relation between one dimension and one measure. This type of charts is perfect in a trend analysis when you want to display time trends, such as the sales by months. The main idea of this chart is to display a continuous line that reflects how our measure (sales in our example) changes across dimension values (months in our example...